Lewin of Greenwich Naval History & Forum

Danae Class Light Cruiser HMS Diomede pictured at Nelson,NZ c1931.Laid down at Vickers Armstong,Barrow in 1918, she was constructed too late to take part in World War I and was completed at the Royal Dockyard,Portsmouth.Upon commissioning she joined the 5th Light Cruiser Squadron on the China Station in 1922. In 1925 she was transferred to the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy at Devonport where she served until 1935, apart from a refit in 1929-1930. In 1931 she rendered assistance to the town of Napier, New Zealand after the devastating Hawkes Bay earthquake, supplying medical personnel, equipment, guards and firemen, along with her sister ship Dunedin.

Danae Class Light Cruiser HMS Dunedin pictured at Honolulu on February 11th 1927...New Zealand Division of the RN..she is flying the NZ flag...Dunedin was steaming in the Central Atlantic Ocean, just east of the St. Paul's Rocks, north east of Recife, Brazil, when on November 24th 1941, at 1526 hours, two torpedoes from the German Submarine U-124 sank her. Only four officers and 63 men survived out of Dunedin's crew of 486 officers and men.